How do you produce a CR/LF anywhere in a text document created in linux OS so that it can be copied and pasted into a windows text editor or onto the web and retain the CR/LF to be read and acted upon ...

My ultimate goal here is to generate a block of text that can be used to test out various fonts at a terminal. I want to generate the file as basically an ascii chart. A series of characters from 1 ...

I am running CentOS 6.5 and I am having problems setting the default keyboard mode to ascii for the virtual terminals. Currently, only the system console defaults to ascii mode, but if I log in to an ...

The unit separator ASCII character (ASCII 31, octal 37), is visible in Vim as a ^_. But if I print the same file to the terminal, the character is invisible. This causes the fields on a line to get ...

The "tree" command uses nice box-drawing characters to show the tree but I want to use the output in a "code-page-neutral" context (I know that really there's always a code page, but by restricting it ...

I need a shell script to detect valid PDFs. That is, I need to retain only plain ASCII PDFs. Other PDFs which contain non-ASCII contents and malicious scripts need to be deleted. How could I go about ...

I'm using vim+mutt to write e-mails which I send via IMAP through Google. When I include a signature file to be used, and that file contains an ASCII signature (figlet font), it is badly displayed by ...

I'm struggling to work out what the octal 2-byte output from the od command is. I understand the octal output (-b flag) but the octal 2-byte is a mystery to me (-o)
Can someone shed some light on how ...

I. I want to do a simple graph from timestamp YEAR-month-day to valuation, not wanting to use spreadsheets. Is there some ASCII tool for it to see it on CLI? There are over 500k lines of data, and I ...